Louis fischer



UNITED STAT S PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS FISCHER, on new YORK, N. Y.

SCARF ATTACH M ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,618, dated May 24, 1 887.

Application filed July 2'7, 1886. Serial No. 209,229.

(No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

' Be it known that I, LOUIS FISCHER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have in vented a new and Improved Scarf Attachment, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved attachment for which serves at the same time as a guide and keeper for the neckband and as a fastening pin or catch for the same, stiffens the scarf, is very economical, and is easily applied.

The invention consists, principally, in a combined neckband keeper and catch made from a blank of sheet metal, having a tooth or catch-pin formed integrally therewith and folded to form a tubular guide for the band, the device being adapted to be secured to the scarf.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a rear view of any ordinary Tech scarf to which my improvement has been applied. Fig. 2 is a side view of the combined band-keeper and catch -pin detached, and Fig. 3 is a plan of the blank from which the same is formed.

The combined neckband-keeper and catchpin A is formed from a blank, B, of sheet-tin, hardened brass, or other suitable material. cut or stamped to a shape substantially as' indicated in Fig. 3, and formed with the sharpenedtooth G on its lower edge. It is also provided with one or more perforations, D. The blank thus prepared is folded, as indicated by the dotted lines, so as to form a slightly-tapering hollow guide, E, for the convenient insertion of the neckband therein. The attachment is then secured within the body of the scarf F, at one side thereof, by stitching through the scarf and the perforation D, and the material of which the scarf-body is composed is wrapped around the guide E so as to entirely conceal the same. The attachmentis then in position to receive the end of the neckband G, which is stiffened in the usual manner after the same has been passed around the neck of the wearer, and on being drawn taut the band is securely caught on the pin or scans" tooth O, which may project slightly below the scarf-body, as shown.

The attachment thus constructed allows of the ready insertion of the neckband, owing to its tapering form, and thus prevents the band from being inserted in the wrong place and being caught in the stitching, as has heretofore been the difficulty when stitched pockets or loops have been relied upon to guide the neckband in place. The attachment when applied also stiffens the body of the scarf and prevents it from being drawn together and wrinkled by too great a tension on the neckband.

The cost of manufacture is very slight, it being formed at a single operation from a suitably-prepared blank of sheettin, brass, &c., and it is adapted to all forms of scarfsas Teck, fiat, &c.also bows where a neckband is employed for holding the same in place.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.

l. The combination, with a neckscarf, of the herein-described separate fixed guideway formed of stiff material and adapted to receive the end of a neckband, and extending from a point at or near the upper edge of the front portion or shield downward toward the lower edge of said shield or front portion, substantially as shown and described.

2. A combined neckband keeper and catch for scarfs, made from a blank of sheet metal, formed with the tooth O projecting from its edge, and folded to ..form a guide, E, for the neckband, substantially as shown and described.

3. The blank B, having the sharpened tooth 0, formed integrally therewith, and adapted to be folded to form the tubular neckbandguide E, substantially as shown and described.

4.. The combination, with the scarf, of the tapering sheet-metal band'guide E, having the tooth (3, formed integrally therewith, and secured to the body of the scarf, substantially as shown and described.

LOUIS FISCHER. 

